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CHAPTER XXIV
_Balaam, finding that God was determined to bless Israel, seeks_
_no longer for enchantments_, 1.
_The Spirit of God coming upon him, he delivers a most important_
_prophetic parable_...
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THE PARABLES OF BALAAM
Chapter S 23-24
_ 1. The first parable (Numbers 23:1)_
2. Balak's surprise and Balaam's answer (Numbers 23:11)
3. At Zophim (Numbers 23:13)
4. The second parable
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NUMBERS 23:25 TO NUMBERS 24:2. BALAK'S SACRIFICES PRELIMINARY TO
BALAAM'S THIRD ORACLE. The scene of these was Peor, some mountain
overlooking the desert bordering the Dead Sea on the W. The
inconsist...
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PLEASED THE LORD. Hebrew was good in the eyes of Jehovah.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
OTHER TIMES. Compare Numbers 23:3; Numbers 23:15, and see Structure
(p. 215).
TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS....
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_he went not, as at the other times, to meet with_ OMENS] The Heb. has
a curious idiom which may be rendered either as in R.V., or -as at
other times" (omitting -the"), i.e. as was his usual practice...
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Numbers 24:1-2. Balaam knew that Jehovah wished Israel to be blessed;
he did not therefore seek an omen to guide him, but began his
declaration at once....
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TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS— In the margin, _to the meeting of
enchantments;_ by which is meant the same as he calls, _meeting the
Lord,_ in the 3rd and 15th verses of the last chapter. It is difficult
t...
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G. THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM (NUMBERS 24:1-9)
TEXT
Numbers 24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless
Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but
he set his fa...
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_AND WHEN BALAAM SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BLESS ISRAEL, HE WENT
NOT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS, BUT HE SET HIS FACE
TOWARD THE WILDERNESS._
When Balaam saw - i:e., was convin...
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24:1 for (a-26) Lit. 'meet.'...
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TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS] lit. 'to meet omens': see on Numbers 23:3.
TOWARD THE WILDERNESS] i.e. towards the plain where the Israelites
were encamped: see Numbers 21:20; Numbers 22:1....
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BALAAM (CONTINUED)
1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 24
BALAAM’S THIRD *PROPHECY – NUMBERS 24:1-14
V1 Balaam realised that the *LORD wanted to *bless the *Israe
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XXIV.
(1) HE SET HIS FACE TOWARD THE WILDERNESS. — i.e., towards the place
where the Israelites were encamped on the steppes of Moab....
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וַ יַּ֣רְא בִּלְעָ֗ם כִּ֣י טֹ֞וב בְּ
עֵינֵ֤י
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BALAAM'S PARABLES
Numbers 22:39, Numbers 24:1
THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of
the Hebrew tribes in the plain of the Jordan is fully visible. At
Kiriath-huzoth,...
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BALAAM'S VISION OF ISRAEL'S PROSPERITY
Numbers 24:1
In these remarkable words Balaam describes the condition and prospects
of God's people. They reveal the innermost thought which even a bad,
double-...
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From the closing sentences in chapter twenty-three we learn that
Balaam was taken to yet another place of vision, from whence he looked
on the desert. The Spirit of God came upon him and again he utte...
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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went
not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face
toward the (a) wilderness.
(a) Where the Israelites camped....
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_Divination. Septuagint, "to meet the birds." The augurs judged of
future events by the flying, eating, and other appearances of birds.
Hebrew, "enchantments." (Menochius) --- Desert. The plains of Mo...
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CONTENTS
We have in this Chapter, the continuation and conclusion of the
history of Balak and Balaam. And never surely was there afforded a
more memorable evidence, than there is in it, of the LORD'S...
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The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their
neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a
striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
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_TOWARD THE WILDERNESS_
‘And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he
went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his
face toward the wilderness.’
Numbers 2...
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1._And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord. _It is evident that
Balaam, in order to gratify the wicked king for the sake of the
reward, endeavored by various shifts and expedients to obtain an
an...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25.
Moab also opposes in vain. Now they are in the plains of Moab, having
only Jordan between them and the land of their rest. But had they a...
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AND WHEN BALSAM SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BLESS ISRAEL,.... That
it was good in his sight, what he approved of, and was well-pleasing
to him, and that it was his determined mind that Israel shou...
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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went
not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face
toward the wilderness.
Ver. 1. _He went not as at other tim...
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_He went not as at other times_ At former times; _to seek for
enchantments_ The word נחשׁ, from which נחשׁים, _necashim_,
here rendered _enchantments_, is derived, signifies to _augur,
conjecture, sea...
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1 Balaam leauing diuinations, prophesieth the happinesse of Israel.
10 Balak in anger dismisseth him.
15 He prophesieth of the starre of Iacob, and the destruction of some
nations.
[BALAAM BLESSETH...
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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, this
conviction having rather been forced upon him by his double
experience, HE WENT NOT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, as upon the two previous
occa...
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A THIRD BLESSING...
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BALAAM'S THIRD PROPHECY
(vs.1-13)
THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
At least Balaam had learned by now that the Lord had the unchangeable
purpose of blessing Israel, so this time he knew it was useless to
seek e...
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TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS:
_ Heb._ to the meeting of enchantments...
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1-9 Now Balaam spake not his own sense, but the language of the
Spirit that came upon him. Many have their eyes open who have not
their hearts open; are enlightened, but not sanctified. That knowledg...
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NUMBERS CHAPTER 24 Balaam lays aside his sorceries, and the Spirit of
God comes upon him; his eyes are open; hears the words of God, and
sees the vision of the Almighty, NUMBERS 24:1; prophesies of Is...
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Numbers 24:1 Balaam H1109 saw H7200 (H8799) pleased H5869 H2895
(H8804) LORD H3068 bless H1288 ...
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Numbers 24:1
In Balaam we have a man who, while his audacity and superstition are
monstrous, still has a strong fear of Almighty God upon him, a
determination not to disobey Him openly, a hope that at...
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CONTENTS: Balaam foretells prosperity for Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Balaam, Balak.
CONCLUSION: Those who oppose God and His people will sooner or later
be made to see themselves wretchedly deceived....
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Numbers 24:7. _He shall pour the water._ This is a fine prediction of
the increase of Jacob's seed, and of the temporal blessings which
should fall to their lot. Agag, a perpetual name assumed by the...
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_He set his face toward the wilderness._
THE FACE SET TOWARD THE WILDERNESS
Evidently there is a change at this point in Balaam’s method.
Hitherto he has played the soothsayer. At last he confesses h...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 24:1 The mention of the Spirit of God
empowering Balaam (v. Numbers 24:2) shows the validity of Balaam’s
third blessing. Balaam describes himself as the
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
Numbers 24:1. _To seek for enchantments_. See Notes on Numbers 23:3;
Numbers 23:23.
_He set his face toward the wilderness, i.e._, towards the plains of
Moab, where the...
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NUMBERS 24:1
AS AT OTHER TIMES, or, "as (he had done) time after time." SEPTUAGINT,
κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS. Rather,
"for the meeting with aunties." לִקְמראת נְחַשִׁים.
Septuagint...
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So when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn't
even go up, as the other times before the LORD, [to seek the face or]
to seek for enchantments, but he just set his face towards...
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1 Samuel 24:20; 1 Samuel 26:2; 1 Samuel 26:25; Numbers 22:13; N
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At other times — In former times. Toward the wilderness — Where
Israel lay encamped, expecting what God of his own accord would
suggest to him concerning this matter....